Month: June 2017

In a joint letter, the Sudan Relief Fund and six other faith-based and human rights groups have urged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to consider issues relating to religious freedom and the persecution of religious minorities in Sudan as part of any strategic review relating to U.S. policy.
As the

For $40,000 a month, Squire Patton Boggs will work for the Sudanese government headed by war criminal Omar al-Bashir, whose best known work includes the ongoing genocide in Darfur and the Nuba Mountains. The Washington, D.C. lobbying law firm, which is headed by former Republican Sen. Trent Lott and former

In a recent MSNBC interview, journalist Greta van Susteren spoke with Former Rep. Frank Wolf and humanitarian activist Ryan Boyette to discuss the crisis in Sudan and the possibility of U.S. sanctions being lifted.
“I beg the administration, in the interest of speaking out for human rights and religious freedom,

The news that Pope Francis will not be able to visit South Sudan this year prompted the nation’s bishops to voice reassurances that a future visit is possible, and ask for a renewed commitment to peace.
Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio and President of the

The Catholic University of South Sudan, funded by the South Sudan Relief Fund, held its 5th graduation ceremony at Nyakuron Cultural Centre. More than 250 students graduated from the faculties of Economics and Business Administration, Education and Agriculture.
The Chancellor of Catholic University, Bishop Edward Hiiboro, encouraged the cheerful graduates

The Sudan Relief Fund would like to congratulate Dr. Tom Catena for winning the prestigious Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity. Dr. Tom, a Catholic missionary from New York, is the only doctor permanently based in Sudan’s war-ravaged Nuba Mountains where humanitarian aid is heavily restricted. He was selected as the